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Post by Prime etc. on May 15, 2020 2:46:59 GMT
Ah ha!
I GOT ONE! I knew I forgot one I had seen a couple of times.
DEATH IN SMALL DOSES 1957
Speed kills, as Peter Graves attempts to bust up a black market amphetamine racket in this action-packed thriller directed by two-time Academy Award® nominee* Joseph Newman (This Island Earth). When bootleg bennies threaten to destroy the long-distance trucking industry, undercover FDA agent Tom Kayler (Graves) is ordered to investigate. Posing as a student driver, he takes a room at a boarding house that caters to truckers, run by the widow of a pill-popping hauler (Mala Powers). So when his hopped-up partner (Chuck Connors) introduces him to a hash-slinging dealer (Merry Anders), Kayler embarks on a trail that leads to murder in this hard-hitting exposé ripped from the pages of The Saturday Evening Post.
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Post by jervistetch on May 15, 2020 2:58:57 GMT
Ah ha! I GOT ONE! I knew I forgot one I had seen a couple of times. DEATH IN SMALL DOSES 1957OMG! This movie sounds like a “so bad, it’s good” masterpiece. I must seek it out.
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Post by Prime etc. on May 15, 2020 3:02:04 GMT
Ah ha! I GOT ONE! I knew I forgot one I had seen a couple of times. DEATH IN SMALL DOSES 1957OMG! This movie sounds like a “so bad, it’s good” masterpiece. I must seek it out. A must see for Chuck Connors fans. That reminds me, this thread made me think of an idea for another topic...
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Post by london777 on May 15, 2020 3:18:21 GMT
Whoops, now days later I realize I said Duel without seeing it already in the initial list. Because it was not there when you posted. I was fiddling about adding it while you were posting. As soon as I uploaded my addition I saw your post. Sorry!
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Post by Prime etc. on May 15, 2020 3:19:20 GMT
Because it was not there when you posted. I was fiddling about adding it while you were posting. As soon as I uploaded my addition I saw your post. Sorry! Oh lol ok. So my mind isn't going as fast as I thought.
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Post by london777 on May 15, 2020 3:34:52 GMT
You can never have too many They Drive by Nights in a thread. Here's another one, the genuine original from which those pesky Yanks stole a good film title. Arthur B Woods was an up-and-coming director with a promising future with Warner Bros. Tragically he was killed in 1944 as a night-fighter pilot for the RAF, the only British director to be both decorated and die in battle. They Drive by Night (1938) dir: Arthur B Woods. A convict (played by Emlyn Williams) is implicated in a murder and goes on the run, hitching a ride with a truck driver. So far, a routine social-realist proto-noir, but the tone of the film changes to gothic horror when the Ernest Thesiger character appears and we leave the world of trucking behind. An oddity, but worth a watch on YouTube.   |
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Post by manfromplanetx on May 15, 2020 8:24:23 GMT
..."we can stretch the definition a bit" Truck Turner (1974) Dir. Jonathan Kaplan. A high octane crime thriller with a terrific score from the films leading man Isaac Hayes. Hayes plays a hard-case bounty hunter named, Mack "Truck" Turner, he specializes in bringing in the criminals the police are too scared to chase down themselves. Truck eventually finds himself the target of the most vicious underground killers, with a ruthless hit man on his trail. Dodge D series Pickup Truck 
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Post by manfromplanetx on May 15, 2020 9:39:26 GMT
Trucker setting crime drama Japanese style, Nippon jokyô-den: Gekitô Himeyuri-misaki , Trials Of an Okinawa Village (1971) Dir. Shigehiro Ozawa. A tough crime action film. Running the local trucking company is no-nonsense female boss Junko Fuji in this multi faceted tale set during the American occupation of Okinawa. Disturbed by yakuza thugs, the village is also threatened by usurers, gangsters and indirectly by American GI influences … "Lady Boss" will sought things out. Well known previously for her Red Peony series & period films, Sumiko Fuji aka Junko Fuji wears a trucker shirt & lets her hair down here !!   |
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Post by london777 on May 15, 2020 21:14:20 GMT
Highway 13 (1948) dir: William Berke is a 58 min low-budget B-movie helped by some competent supporting actors such as Clem Bevans and Lyle Talbot. A series of trucking accidents in the same area warrants investigation. 
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Post by mikef6 on May 15, 2020 21:27:39 GMT
Dystopian future truck noir. The Road Warrior.  |
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Post by manfromplanetx on May 15, 2020 21:36:38 GMT
Back on the noir road... The Thirteenth Hour (1947) William Clemens A solid little B feature it was the last film of rugged star Richard Dix his seventh film of the Whistler series... A dramatic entertaining drama Dix plays a stalwart truckman Steve Reynolds, who gets mixed up with a mysterious cache of diamonds, several murders and the inevitable femme. The girl, in this particular case, is attractive Karen Morley....  |
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Post by manfromplanetx on May 15, 2020 22:48:18 GMT
Criss Cross (1949) Dir. Robert Siodmak. Starring with superd performances Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo and Dan Duryea. The trucker basics. An armoured truck driver Steve Thompson (Lancaster) seals his fate when he and his lovely ex-wife conspire to have his own truck robbed on route... With triple and quadruple crosses, leading up to one of the most shockingly cynical endings in the whole genre, a striking film noir of obsessive love and betrayal. Enhanced by the beautifully expressive dark photography of Frank Planer, a tight script by Daniel Fuchs, and the artistic, taut directorial style of Siodmak. One of the best ...  
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Post by Prime etc. on Jun 3, 2020 6:57:43 GMT
This was really good. I never cared for Victor Mature but he was sympathetic here--interesting situation for him as someone who is honest but finds so much dishonesty around him. I only knew Diana Dors from 1967 onward--can certainly see the Mansfield comparison.
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